11 Recycled Christmas Decorations with Materials You Can Get Around the House

Halloween just ended, and Christmas time is fast approaching. In addition to buying presents for your loved ones, this time is also a perfect time to plan your Christmas decorations. Even while it's alluring to purchase new holiday decorations every year, the cost soon adds up. Making your holiday decorations saves money and reduces unnecessary waste, and allows you to express your creativity in a meaningful manner.

It allows us to spend more time with our loved ones while avoiding the ever-increasing consumerism that comes with the Christmas season. This is even better since we're repurposing trash for our Christmas projects instead of buying new stuff. In other words, we can still be in an entire holiday mood without creating additional waste while celebrating Christmas, and we are not wasting money on Christmas decorations as we can easily find the things that we need at home. 

Here are some of the Christmas concepts you can try to create with the whole family to give you some ideas.

Recycled Materials for Christmas Tree

For generations, people have celebrated Christmas with trees. Christmas trees were traditionally adorned with various sweets and nuts, and fruits such as berries, candles, and candy canes. The first electric Christmas lights didn't come up until 1882. Since then, people worldwide have raised the stakes in shopping for their Christmas decorations and now become an integral element of the holiday custom.

But if you want to save some budget and, at the same time, help the environment, there are many ways you can use your creativity in making artistic and festive Christmas decorations from scraps. 

1. Christmas balls with CD ornament

Have fun creating a Christmas tree with old CDs as basic materials.

Transparent Christmas balls may be converted into instant glistening festive decorations by adding a few simple embellishments. Do you have a collection of CDs and DVDs lying around at home accumulating dust? You can cut them into weird shapes and use a hot glue gun to attach them to your Christmas balls. They're stunning, particularly with the Christmas tree decorated with lights!

2. Christmas balls with buttons

Decorating is fun with the use of colorful buttons.

Meanwhile, if you don't have CDs or DVDs at home but have lots of old buttons from your mother's sewing box, you can also use them as beautiful Christmas crafts. Choose the ones with a glossy finish or in festive hues like gold and silver for a cheerful appearance. To use, attach them to your Christmas ornaments using hot glue. Make a festive bow out of gold ribbon to finish the design.

3. Rustic themed ornament

Save money when you use pine cones and tree branches as ornaments

Even food may be utilized to decorate for the holiday season creatively. Please make use of dried fruit such as lemons by stringing them together with cinnamon sticks and hanging them from your tree. They'll be the talk of the party as your guests smell the festive scents emanating from your tree!

4. Old Christmas Cards Banner

Old Christmas banner for decoration is a crafty project with personal touch

You can create this with the entire family, and it's pretty simple to do! To begin, you can decide which card designs you want to use for your Christmas cards banner. You can even show off the notes that others have left inside the cards if you want to. To create an accord, you can select either all the Christmas cards with snowmen or trees on them or pick all the items that are mostly red and green if you'd rather design by color.

More Recycled Christmas Decorations

1. A Memory Wreath

Making holiday wreaths from repurposed materials is a simple and rewarding way to use recycled Christmas decorations. Make a wreath using old toys, knickknacks, decorations, board game pieces, cookie cutters, and other Christmas-themed memorabilia. Your memories may be turned into festive holiday décor by making these wreaths and hanging them on your front door.

2. Christmas Wine Bottle Ornaments

Hang Christmas colors when you use wine bottle as ornaments.

Since holidays let us collect a lot of wine bottles at home, why not use them to decorate your house for the holidays! You can paint them with colorful designs or insert twigs, red berries, designed cute plants from your garden, and other red, green, and bright color stuffs that you can find at home. 

3. Reindeer Corks

Old wine corks and paint the nose red for a fairly easy decor to hang.

Turning wine corks into reindeer is a creative way to utilize them as Christmas decorations. You'd best make sure they have red noses, too. Cork bottle stoppers, twigs, little bells or chimes, and scarlet beads are all you'll need. Stuff the twigs into the cork bottle stopper to make the moose figure's neck, legs, and antlers. Attach the red bead to the reindeer's snout and add bells or chimes to the collars.

4. Corky Dangles

Instead of throwing corks in the recycling bin, craft it into classy ornament.

Another way to use cork bottle stoppers is by creating beautiful Christmas trinkets. Your design abilities and ingenuity will determine how complex they are. However, you can always start with some poinsettias, gold trimmings, and ribbons. You can also decorate it with objects that express your individuality.

5. Wreaths made with beer caps

Aside from wines, Filipinos also love to drink beer during the holiday season. You can recycle those beer caps instead of disposing of them immediately. It's good that you can easily make a cap wreath out of them. All you have to do is look through for the brightest, most vibrant colored caps and wire or string them together to build a wreath to form a circle. Add a beautiful ribbon for an extra festive look!

6. Mr. Can the Snowman

These charming Christmas snowmen may be made from recycled tin cans. Three tin cans of varying sizes that you used for your food preparations must be painted in white. Make the eyes and lips black buttons and the shirt various colors buttons. The limbs and nose should also be attached using hot glue. Put a scarf and cap, paper snowflakes, or anything else you find amusing and inventive to make it more charming and captivating.

7. Holiday Mason Jars

You may upcycle your old mason jars to produce lovely DIY Christmas crafts that your family and friends will enjoy. This is an excellent idea for Christmas gifts like cookies or hot drink mixtures as gift containers. Holiday treats like nuts and dried cranberries, chocolates, or other sweets may be placed in them, too, and be put on the coffee table for visitors to enjoy over the holiday season.

You don't have to spend a lot of money to make your house festive for the holidays. Holiday decorations may survive for years if you store them correctly inside sturdy boxes. Try creating your own beautiful, stylish, and eco-friendly Christmas decorations now and get some extra wow factor from these creative trinkets.